WASHINGTON -- The presidential election may be over, but the bitter tension between top staffers on the competing campaigns remains more heated than ever.

At a quadrennial post-election forum Thursday at Harvard University -- typically a polite and clinical affair -- quarrels between top strategists on the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns devolved into shouting matches and fierce accusations.

“If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am glad to have lost,” Palmieri said. “I would rather lose than win the way the guys you did.”

Bannon, who joined the Trump campaign in August, is the former chairman of Breitbart, a right-wing news website that he once referred to as a “platform for the alt-right,” an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism.

“Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?” Conway snapped back. “You’re going to look me in the face and tell me that?”’

“I did, Kellyanne,” Palmieri said. “I did.”

Conway continued to hit back, calling Clinton’s aides “bitter” and telling her colleagues that they did not have to respond because they won.

“Do you think you could have just had a decent message for white, working-class voters?” Conway said, adding that Clinton “doesn’t connect with people” and “had no economic message.”

Trump’s staffers urged their Democratic counterparts to accept responsibility for the results and move on.

To which Clinton adviser Karen Finney responded, "Hashtag if he's going to be my president he's going to need to show me that white supremacy isn't acceptable."

Trump’s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, also got in on the war of words, feuding with Clinton chief strategist Joel Benenson.

“We’re not at a Trump rally, Corey,” Benenson chided at one point as they began talking over one another.

Lewandowski directed much of his ire at the press, claiming that the media misinterpreted Trump and suggesting that New York Times editor Dean Baquet “should be in jail” for publishing part of Trump’s tax returns obtained through an anonymous source during the campaign.

"This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything Donald Trump said so literally," Lewandowski said. "The American people didn't. They understood it.”

The media criticism came from both sides, as several Clinton advisers alleged there was an unfair “double standard” for Clinton driven partly by her gender and status as the favorite in the race.

Though the strategists could not approach a consensus on what led to Trump’s surprise victory, some on Trump’s team insisted they saw the victory coming. Digital director Brad Parscale, who ran Trump's operation from his firm in San Antonio, said he told his boss days before the election that their campaign was headed to victory.

Clinton’s team continued to fault FBI director James Comey for intervening in the final weeks of the campaign. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, repeating the crux of a memo he sent out in the days after the loss, claimed that both of Comey’s letters galvanized Trump supporters and depressed Clinton’s turnout.